When we talk about the Abu Garcia Ascalon rod series; perhaps many of you older Abu Garcia fans will go, “what’s that again?,” since the Ascalon is a rod series that is merely 10 years old. The Ascalon may not be as famous as the Abu Garcia Ultracast or the Abu Garcia Tournament rods, but the Ascalon certainly has plenty of following within its segment. The Abu Garcia Ascalon rod series enjoys good support justifying Abu Garcia to launch the third generation; Abu Garcia Ascalon III.

Metallic Citrusy Candy

I like colours that standout but not too much. I think a yellow elephant looks cool but not appealing. A pastel blue one perhaps will look more appealing. What I like may not be what you like anyways, hence there are no right colours or wrong colours although a purple elephant with pink polka dots is downright obnoxious.

Lucky for us the colours of the Abu Garcia Ascalon III rod stays safe within good boundaries. It comes in black with metallic candy orange, and grey. There is just enough metallic candy orange to make it look good. Full one metallic candy orange will too put it in the obnoxious category. It’ll work for a Lamborghini or a Ferrari but not a Toyota Camry, you know what I mean?

The base colour of the Ascalon III is gloss black or as some calls it; piano black. Ah, so elegant. Slapped on to this elegance are carbon fibre wrapping at the butt section of the rod for added rigidity and toughness, and carbon coil wrapping at the tip section which also provides additional toughness but with absorption and recoil power; needed when casting lures or baits and when battling a hard fighting brute of a fish.